Amnesty: US 'War on Terror' Has Made World Worse

by Gideon Long

LONDON - Washington's "war on terror" has made the world more
dangerous by curbing human rights, undermining international law and
shielding governments from scrutiny, Amnesty International said on
Wednesday.

Releasing its annual report into global human rights abuses in 2002,
the London-based watchdog made one of its fiercest attacks yet on
the policies pursued by the United States and Britain in response to
the attacks of September 11, 2001.

. . . "At least 1,000 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army
(in 2002), most of them unlawfully," it said. "Palestinian armed
groups killed more than 420 Israelis, at least 265 of them
civilians..."